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CBS News for 60 Minutes: The Mother of
All Heists Chicago Public Radio, Alix Spiegel & PRI
for This American Life: Which One of These Is Not Like the Others? Florentine Films/Hott Productions & WETA-TV, Washington, DC, for Through Deaf Eyes on PBS ...
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Showtime's series This American Life , from Ira
Glass and based on his long-running radio program, is
on the way to DVD! All six-half hour episodes from this past Spring will be available on This American Life - Season 1 , a release that will be ...
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"The Tudors": 2008 TM Productions Limited/PA Tudors Inc.
An Ireland-Canada Co-Production. Brotherhood : 2007 Showtime Networks Inc.
All rights reserved. trademark, copyright and terms. "Weeds": 2007 Lions Gate Television Inc. All rights reserved. ...
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365: Another Frightening Show About the Economy Alex
Blumberg and NPR's Adam Davidson—the two guys who reported
our Giant Pool of Money episode—are back, in collaboration with the Planet Money podcast. They'll explain what happened this week, ...
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Dwight Garner, senior editor of New York Times
Book Review and author of their earnestly titled blog,
Paper Cuts, has this to say about This American Life : Admirers talk about how, blinded by show's minor-chord epiphanies, they've pulled over to ...
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348: Tough Room This week we bring you
backstage with comedy writers at The Onion . They
start with over 600 potential headlines for their fake-news newspaper each week, and over the course of two days, in the very tough room that is their editorial ...
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Debuting Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 10 pm
ET/PT on Showtime.
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This American Life - Season 2 Trailer
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hey hey! just a quick post to bring
your attention to the second season premiere of this
american life over on showtime tonight (based on the very popular chicago public radio show) if you don't have showtime - you need to think about subscribing - ...
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There's an old insult in the TV business
where, if an actor or on-camera personality isn't conventionally
good-looking -- say, Howard Cosell -- you say they have a face for radio. Ira Glass, the host of both the radio and...
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News flash: Most Americans think TV is getting
worse. According to a poll conducted recently by the
Associated Press and AOL TV, 62 percent of Americans think TV is on the decline, and only 22 percent believe the quality of shows is getting better. ...
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Before we start this, for the record, we
like Malcolm Gladwell. His books and articles are always
interesting. When he met him at the Moth Gala last year , he recommended a book to us and pointing out a bug scampering on the floor, which for the ...
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I absolutely loved the first season of This
American Life. One of my main goals for my
upcoming trip to NYC is to hit up a Borders book store and pick it up on DVD. (For some lame reason, it’s only available IN STORE through this American ...
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Rover
found this 5/25/2008 on
www.tvaholic.com
News & Notes On cable tonight, E! has
the second season finale of Keeping Up With the
Kardashians , Hallmark Channel has the TV movie premiere of Shark Swarm , HBO has the TV movie premiere of Recount , Oxygen has the first summer season premiere of Captured , and VH1 has the first season finale of Viva Hollywood! Check out the Ultimate Guide to the Summer TV Schedule - 2008 . ...
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"Muscle Bound" (pilot teaser)I am hosting a gnarly
new crime show for the newly-branded TruTV (formerly CourtTV)
called "Rich and Reckless," and it premieres this Friday, June 6, at 10pm!"Rich and Reckless" is produced by Left/Right (the team that ...
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Mamma mia! Angry black man Spike Lee is
getting a taste of his own opportunistic outrage .
After spending the past couple weeks hectoring fellow director Clint Eastwood with charges of prejudiced casting, Lee is now under fire from the Italic ...
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When the most exciting news of the CBS
day at the Television Critics Association press tour is
delivered by corporate-kin cabler Showtime, you know TV's in trouble. Or maybe not. Think about the shows Showtime gives us. Dexter, Weeds, Secret...
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All of the new DVD releases hit stores
(and Netflix ) on Tuesdays. So each week in
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday , I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to my selections below, you can also check ...
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Rover
found this 10/6/2008 on
cajunboyinthecity.blogspot.com
I listened to the podcast of Friday's This
American Life , which featured financial reporters Alex Blumberg
and Adam Davidson, over the weekend and found it be very informative and pretty damn frightening. Do you know anything about "commercial paper" and "credit default swaps?" I didn't! But ...
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Emmy-winning filmmaker Steven Bognar (co-director of A LION
IN THE HOUSE and part of the team that
created the forthcoming CONVENTION) emailed his thoughts on Friday reflecting on the death of Studs Terkel:Documentary filmmakers hunger for the alchemy ...
The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards - ...